Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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The 100 Year Website – online time capsules

Imagine having your own online time capsule in which you could store treasured photographs, audio, video footage, copies of web pages and text, then have them saved for 100 years! You could virtually bury your capsule until your child’s eighteenth birthday as the most thoughtful of birthday gifts, or keep your capsule open for a century so that generations after

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i’m Making A Difference Facebook Winner

Got this message today in my facebook inbox: When we launched i’m Making A Difference, Facebook made an incredibly generous offer. They put up a $10,000 donation, and asked you – the members – to vote on which of our 10 partner organizations should get it. Well, the votes are in. The choice has been made. The money will be

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Untitled J.J. Abrams Project Cloverfield Trailer #1

For those of you that haven’t heard of Untitled J.J. Abrams Project (aka “Cloverfield”) Movie, I thought I’d post the first official teaser trailer here so you can see for yourself what it’s all about, or better said make up your own mind to what you think the movie is all about… as there’s so much speculation out there right

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Chuckle Brothers 20th Anniversary of ChuckleVision

The Chuckle Brothers (Barry and Paul Elliot) are today celebrating the 20th Anniversary of ChuckleVision and wow I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since they first started ChuckleVision on BBC Television, it’s been great watching ChuckleVision through the years! 🙂 For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a bit about it: The Chuckle Brothers,

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New MSN UK Homepage Redesign 2007

For the past couple of weeks or so there’s been a flash page featuring a tour of what the new MSN UK Homepage will look like when it’s released. Well now The MSN UK Homepage Team have finally launched this new and improved redesign of the MSN UK Homepage Portal for all to see at http://uk.msn.com/ Some of the new features include: Wider

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Toshiba Tecra A8 Review

For the past week I’ve had in my possession a Toshiba Tecra A8 Notebook which I have thanks to Talk Toshiba and it’s Tecra A8 triallist programme in which they give bloggers, journalists and community leaders the chance to test out their laptops for a week (more if you request) in exchange for writing an honest, objective review on your

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Free Future of Web Apps Expo Passes for Students!

Just over 2 weeks to go now until The Future of Web Apps conference and Expo starts in London on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of October and do I have news for you students! 😀 That is if you can get away from you’re studies! 😉 The Future of Web Apps Expo (not conference) is now free for all

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Microsoft loses european anti-trust appeal

It’s been announced today that Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497 million euro (£343 million; $690 million) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. Below is a section from the Court of First Instance Press Release: Judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-201/04 Microsoft Corp. v Commission of the European

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The Ultimate Steal – Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007

Microsoft has recently announced The Ultimate Steal, a limited-time promotion for college students starting today in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and starting September the 20th in Spain, Italy and France. The Ultimate Steal Promotion offers students who are actively enrolled at eligible educational institutions to opportunity to acquire Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 via the Web at a